The Spaceguard Foundation home page

Welcome to the home page of the Spaceguard Foundation, an
association aimed at the protection of the Earth environment against
the bombardment of objects of the solar system (comets and
asteroids). According to the foundation
by-laws:

... the Association is therefore an entity
eminently oriented within the most general framework of scientific research and
shall pursue the following purposes:

to promote and co-ordinate activities for the discovery, pursuit
(follow-up) and orbital calculation of the NEO at an international level;

to promote study activities - at theoretical, observational and
experimental levels - of the physical-mineralogical characteristics of the
minor bodies of the solar system, with particular attention to the NEO;

to promote and co-ordinate a ground network (the
Spaceguard System), backed up by possible satellite network, for the
discovery observations and for astrometric and physical follow-up.

Please note that the present WWW pages are under construction and still
at a preliminary stage: for any problem please refer to Giovanni Valsecchi
(giovanni@ias.rm.cnr.it):
any help, comment and proposal will be highly appreciated!

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